Re: lower/upper on latin2 encoding - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: lower/upper on latin2 encoding
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0208212108590.15511-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net
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In response to lower/upper on latin2 encoding  (Laukó Péter <plauko@freemail.hu>)
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Laukó Péter dijo:

>
> Hi list,
> can anyone tell me why the characters with accents are not changed by lower and upper? Is it a bug, or should I
configureanything else than the db encoding??? 

Huh, they do in my version ("developer" version).  They should also work
in current stable version, AFAIK.

pg_controldata here gives amongst other things (this should be in
contrib/ in your version):

$ pg_controldata
[... some things ...]
LC_COLLATE:                           es@tradicional
LC_CTYPE:                             es@tradicional

$ psql regression -c "select upper('ñáí')"
 upper
-------
 ÑÁÍ
(1 row)


It should be a matter of setting the locale at initdb time.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
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